Mr Haddon-Cave and the Textiles Advisory Board
even more difficult than they are already; we
might also be making greater difficulties for our-
selves when the time comes to negotiate with
Hong Kong on cotton textiles in conjunction with
our partners in the Community.
3. On the substance of the matter, I myself
cannot see any difficulty over the point made in
paragraph 2 of Hong Kong telegram No 72 (when
I discussed this briefly with Mr Ridley on the
telephone earlier this week he more or less agreed
that we could give this assurance).
Paragraph 3
of the telegram (up swing from Group II or Group
III to Group IV) is clearly more difficult, but
might hig
I would have thought we could for a compromise
between 4.6 million square yards and 10 million
square yards.
Clot
The point in paragraph ↳ will be
I suspect the most difficult of all for the DTI
to accept.
4. In pressing the DTI to consider moving a
little further towards the Hong Kong position
Mr Royle would, I think, have to base his case
quite simply on the fact that Hong Kong is a Crown
Colony.
5. Mr Royle may wish to write to Sir John Eden
on the lines of the attached draft.
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have been agreed with Mr Hale.
Its terms
2.
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